Who are the elite of the world of fictional detectives? We could go on listing them all day, but we decided to stick with 24 of our favorite famous sleuths.

True Detective's Ray Velcoro ... (quoting Shakespeare, no less), but his most famous catchphrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson", never appeared in any of Conan Doyle's books.

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He's a kid named Stanley Kid, owner of the world famous Kid Detective Agency. He must stop a devastating crime wave that's spreading across his island home while keeping himself and his pesky ...

Real name Norval Morrisseau, Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist whose original ... and the hard-boiled homicide detectives initially skeptical of art fraud. The detectives ended up mastering ...

From the creators of Neverland and London's most famous detective, to an under-celebrated proponent of Gothic themes and the paranormal, here are nine of our favourite authors who were born in May.

Though potentially the second most famous detective in British culture (after Sherlock Holmes), Poirot is not British at all but a refugee. Coming to England as part of a group of Belgians ...

Captain Marvel proved to be one of the most popular superhero comics ... Horror and crime were popular, notably The Spirit, a masked detective who captured villains and dispensed justice.